Thanks for bringing this technology to our attention. The mouse and keyboard
manufacturers better get into another line of business, they are making
buggy whips. I want to buy stock :-)
Not only will you be commanding your computer but you will be telling a
search engine in your own words what to look for. The implication of the
rest of the article is that whole computers could be based on this new type
of neural network chip that would be capable of rapid associational
("right-brained") learning in complex environments. In other words, they
could think. This looks like a major breakthrough in real artificial
intelligence. It goes far beyond speech recognition. The inventors don't
seem to be focussing on that.
Make sure to check out the realplayer video demonstration.
instantly produce
>clean transcripts of conversations, identifying each
>of the speakers. The U.S. Navy, which listens for the
>sounds of submarines in the hubbub of the open seas,
>is another possible user.
Not to mention other unnamed government agencies who like to listen to all
of our phone calls at once.
Fred
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